Robert Rodriguez Quotes

I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

It's really interesting, for an actor, that you can continue to do season after season and not play the same role.

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters.

The goal as an actor is to constantly surround yourself with amazing artists who challenge you and make you grow.

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't.

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

I have been very fortunate to be able to work and get the opportunity to play different roles. It's nice to do big studio pictures and then work in Glasgow on films like 'Red Road' and then dress up as a vampire or an alien. I think that's why a lot of people are actors - the versatility.

I sometimes want to do totally different roles. I don't always want to play 'wholesome.'

I want to do every kind of movie and role you could imagine.

It's really wonderful to play characters as different from each other as I can.

As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.

I feel lucky that I always have a number of films to choose from. I would like to come out of my comfort zone while doing various roles, and I don't want to keep repeating my characters.

I keep surprising myself with films like 'Mission Kashmir,' 'Albela,' 'Farz,' and 'Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai.' All the roles are very different.

There aren't many shows that encompass roles for a seven-year-old to someone in their 50s.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

My priority as an actor is just to be doing different kinds of roles. I say no to anything I have done before.

I don't care about the image I have. What matters to me is that with every film, I am growing more and more as an actor, pushing and challenging myself.

An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.

I feel that in order to truly be an actor, you have to differentiate yourself and your roles, and you have to constantly challenge yourself. I'm not interested in just doing glitzy movie after glitzy movie and being on the cover of Us Weekly every day.

I'm just open to doing all different kinds of movies. I have a movie called Scout coming out and it's a coming of age story. [] I have a very small role in it, but it was really fun to make and really light, but I do want darker roles.